The podcast makes their argument prominent when mentioning we never think about the difficulties of the experimenter during the shocking experiment. We as people always put our self in the shoes of the person being told to do something almost as if it was human nature. I am sure everyone who listened also thought this was a huge epiphany for you that really got you thinking.

The podcasts proceeds with it’s mind blowing argument by saying”instinctively we all know what is feels like to have other people put us in an uncomfortable situation” which to me reminds me of situations like having a job and being a worker. The podcast brings this idea up when mentioning bosses and coworkers when we are being asked to do things that we might not want to do or even despise doing. The point being is that we go along with plenty of things we do not like doing so inherently we never want to push that uncomfortable situation on other people. So we never understand our impact on people when we are entirely focused on our awkwardness and overthinking when approaching someone with these types of situations. We never realize that when we approach people with these types of situation we are actually within power because most people go along with what we ask them to do.

I cannot off the top of my head think of a situation involving myself but what I can say confidently is when looking at political situations I see instances where someones words have a much greater impact then first intended. The instance that pops into my head is from early in the pandemic when President Trump made a claim that an unproven drug could help with the fight against the virus which people that are comparable to sheep took his words and took the drug that ended up killing them. The point being his word was taken so seriously and accepted by some extremely fast which adds to the point the podcast made that we as people don’t see how much of an impact we can have on people to the point that people take what you say or do sometimes to the heart without question.